On October 1, 2014, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the Cinémathèque Française announced that a 1916 silent movie titled "Sherlock Holmes" (based on the namesake) had been found in their vaults. This movie, considered the "Holy Grail" of Sherlock Holmes movies, stars William Gillette and is based on his 1899 stage play. What is the otherwise legacy of this film and play, commonly mistaken to Sir Conan Doyle's original canon and Psmith in the City (1909-1910) by P.G. Wodehouse?
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=> "Elementary, my dear Watson". The phrase clearly does not belong to the original canon, and although used in slight corruption in Psmith in the City, it was used a decade earlier (1899) in Gillette's play "Sherlock Holmes" (as “Elementary, my dear fellow! Ho! Elementary!").
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